The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-21
NUMBER 81.
MISS wINsTON's LUCK.
The Romance OF a Treasury Countess ans
Her Boarding House Nis-a-Nis


New York star.
The young lady clerk in the Treasury
who recently made the gratifying dis
covery that small farm near Birming-
ham. Ala, which her family had long
owned, and supposed 10 be next 10 worth
less. is worth enough To make her indie
pendent, Is something of beauty,
and will well become the station
10 which her wealth will entitle
her. In person she is tall and grace
full. Her features could hardly be
called either regular or classic, yet with
her clear white and pink complexion.
her thick. raven-black hair, and "A pair
of splendid black eyes. they would GER
tainly admit her Ia conspicuous place
among the far-famed, dark-eyed South
ern beauties. She came Ia Washington
IN the sOs, in company with her mother
and aunt, her mothers sister. her father
having died some years before. They
had some means, but not enough to en-
able them To move in circle To which
they had evidently been accustomed
i'm the South. The aunt secured
place in the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving, and later ON Rose was
given place N money counter in the
office of the Treasurer. Her salary was
$500 year AT first. but was gradually
advanced from time Ia time until it was
81 400, when the happy discovery was
made recently that she was heiress Ia "A
property supposed Ia be worth 81 0OO,-
900. Her earnings, together with the
income from their other property in the
South-all that was heretofore supposed
Ia be valuable-enabled mother and
daughter 10 live comfortably. and they
always moved in the better, though not.
of course. the ultra fashionable circles of
society.
Three years ago this summer the pres
ent heiress, then the pretty Treasury
clerk, met Mr.. Frank Macarthur at
boarding house ON Fourteenth street.
near X, in which the family had re-
Gently taken rooms. The house, IL not
in the fashionable quarter, was certainly
well up in the realm of eminent reepect-
ability. There were lots of young men
and maidens in the neighborhood who
were combining their lives and fortunes
for better or for worse, until death do
them part" and perhaps this may have
inclined them TO think seriously of flu
ture arrangement of the kind for them
selves, or perhaps il may have happened
just as other intense likings of the kind
come about. Possibly their landlady
may have taken sly interest in their
welfare, as Washington landladies frs
quently do. Anyway IL soon came
about that young Mac Arthur was seated
next To Miss Rose" al the table, and in
n short space of time they were much
seen together at the theater and nj social
gatherings.
Macarthur hailed from Wisconsin and
was a son of the ex-Judge Of the Supreme
Court of the district. He had begun
years before as "A clerk in the Interior
Department, and had risen to be Judge
of the Interference Division of the Pat
ent office, "A very honorable position, but
not lucrative. His constant study and
long familiarity with interferences did
not permit him Ia allow any thing To i'm
terfere with his lovemaking, and il
came to be generally understood thar he
and the dark-eyed Rose were engaged.
Time went ON, but still they We're not
married. Nobody knew why, but the
gossips of whom there are legion in
the capital, speculated long and deeply
as To the reason. Their wise conclusion
in most instances was that both were
ambitious, for that reason were unwiIl-
ing to unite their fortunes until their
that they could have home 10 suit
them. BE that as il may, they remained
single, and shortly after Mr.. Cleveland
was nominated young Macarthur re-
signed, went To New York and formed a
partnership fo' the practice of patent
law. His abilities had already won lin
recognition, and were beginning to
"a
the great good fortune befell his bride
expectant.
Last Saturday the following modest
notice appeared in the Washington pa
pers
Miss Sarah Winston and Mr.. Frank
Macarthur were married yesterday
afternoon at the residence of Mr..
I. w. Neill on l. street, north
west. The bride is "A granddaughter of
the late Governor Winston, of Alabama,
and the groom il a son Of Judge Arthur
Macarthur.
The bride and groom have many
friends in Washington, who heartily
wish them long life and happiness, but
there are doubtless many young men
hereabouts who heartily wish they had
made better use of their opportunities In
the days when IL wasn't known that
Rose" Winston was heiress to the best
paying land in the State Of Alabama.